Corrected entry: People float in water. Therefore, when Harry undid the rope around Ron's foot in the Black Lake task, Ron should have floated upwards, however slowly, because Harry didn't swim back towards the surface for some time afterwards.
Corrected entry: At the end of the film, Dumbledore announces to the school that Cedric Diggory was murdered by Voldemort. He wasn't, he was murdered by Wormtail, and Harry (who presumably gave them that information) knew that.
Correction: But since Voldemort ordered the killing of Cedric (and most likely would have killed Wormtail had he refused), he is ultimately responsible for Cedric's death. Besides, the workings of a group, such as the Death Eaters or the Nazis during WW2, are often attributed to its leader, even if they do not contribute actively themselves.
Corrected entry: At the start of the Yule Ball, the orchestra is playing a waltz. In one shot you can see a saxophone in the orchestra, even though there isn't one playing.
Correction: I don't know what makes you think there would be no saxophone in the Orchestra? There have be saxophones in every Orchestra that I have played in and listened to all my life. Perhaps the saxophone wasn't necessary for that particular song.
Corrected entry: During the graveyard scene, the year of birth on Tom Riddle Sr.'s tombstone changes from 1905 to 1880. (As the most recent book reveals that Voldemort killed his father at age 16, if Riddle Sr. were born in 1905 this would mean he fathered Voldemort at age 12.).
Correction: On the tombstone the top name is Thomas Riddle, Voldemort's grandfather, who was born in 1880. The middle name on the tombstone is Voldemort's grandmother. The bottom name is Tom Riddle, Voldemort's father, who was born in 1905. Voldemort was born, according to the official timeline of the films, in 1926 (New Years Eve), which would make his father, Tom Riddle, 21 yrs old (or nearly 22, depending on the specific month) when Voldemort was born.
Corrected entry: When Harry's name comes out of the goblet of fire, you see the piece of paper from a close view, so close that you even see that there is nothing written on the paper, but Dumbledore reads out Harry's name anyway.
Correction: It was either written on the other side, or the writing didn't appear (magic, remember) until after Dumbledore grabbed hold of it.
Corrected entry: In the scene after the First Challenge when Ron gets his package, Harry has a very bad cut on his face which seems to be closed with stitches. In the very next scene when the Yule ball is announced the cut and stitches have vanished.
Correction: When Harry is in the dining hall with Hermione and Ron, who receives his dress robes, Harry has a cut on his left cheek closed with four small strips of tape. In the next scene, when Professor McGonagall tells the students about the Yule Ball, Harry still has the cut closed with strips of tape.
Corrected entry: Hagrid and Maxime Olympe walk towards the dragons. Harry is under his invisibility cloak in order not to be seen by Ms Olympe. Arriving at the spot where the dragons are kept, Harry lifts off the cloak. Ms Olympe has somehow disappeared.
Correction: She kept walking toward the dragons and didn't look back.
Corrected entry: When Voldemort goes to Cedric's body he says "such a handsome boy" and steps on his face, you can see some flecks of mud on his face. When Harry brings Cedric back the mud has completely disappeared.
Correction: A lot happens after Voldemort puts his foot on Cedric's face, so there is plenty of time for the mud to have moved, like, for example , when they are fliying through the air whilst being tranported by the portkey. Or even once they have landed, whilst Harry is trying to protect Cedric's body. There is plenty of time for someone or something to have had contact with Cedric's face and move the mud.
Corrected entry: During the Yule Ball Hagrid and Madame Maxime are seen dancing together. In the background Ron is dancing with a girl, although he and Harry have already gone to bed.
Correction: The person in the background is either Fred or George, not Ron. You can tell easily by the longer hair.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Moody is showing the class the three unforgivable curses, Moody asks Ron a question and Ron is sitting in the very first row (in front of Moody). In other shots Ron and Harry are not in the front row.
Correction: The first desk in the center row seats Neville and another student, the second desk in the center row seats Crabbe and another student, and the third desk center row seats Ron and Harry. This never changes for the duration of Moody's class. When Moody asks Ron for an Unforgivable curse, he stands behind Crabbe, facing Ron's desk.
Corrected entry: In the banquet scene after the other schools have entered, the camera pans down the staff table. At this table Madame Maxime, Igor Karkaroff, and Barty Crouch are all already visible. However in the shot where Dumbledore stands with the goblet, Barty Crouch is shown entering a side door next to the staff table.
Correction: Barty Crouch has the seat to Dumbledore's right (viewer's left) at the staff table, in front of the large window, and Karkaroff and Snape sit further down on the (viewer's) right. Barty is not shown walking in through the side door as Dumbledore speaks to the students. Barty is, however, shown walking directly behind the staff chairs toward the viewer's right, with the tall glistening glass cylinders located on the wall behind him (Snape sits nearly in front of these cylinders), in order to walk around the staff table to reach the front, where Dumbledore stands.
Corrected entry: During the second task, when Harry has reached the four prisoners, it is obvious that Fleur's little sister's hair is silvery-white. However, in all other scenes, her hair is obviously blonde-brown. The change in coloration isn't an effect of the water - none of the other characters' hair changes (i.e. underwater, Hermione's hair is still brown).
Correction: Her hair is silvery-blonde throughout the entire movie. Also, blonde hair, especially light blonde, looks different in water but brown hair doesn't, which is why the others' stayed the same.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Harry is speaking to Sirius Black in the fireplace - Harry spins around, looks towards the stairs and hears Ron coming - look quickly during this shot to the top of the picture (in the dark) you will see a person walking right to left. Can't be anyone who's meant to be there - Harry's definitely alone and there's no implication this is meant to be someone listening in.
Correction: You are seeing Ron on the balcony at the top of the common room stairwell, which leads to the boys' and girls' dormitories.
Corrected entry: When Harry is taken into Moody's office and he takes his leg off you can see his "special eye" change from the normal left hand side of his head to the right and back again.
Correction: What you are seeing is Moody's reflection in the Foe-Glass.
Corrected entry: During the dragon task, Harry falls off his broom and hangs from a window of the castle; his broom is lying/hanging on the roof above him. Yet, in the wide shot from above, the broom is nowhere to be seen - at least the metal footrest should have been visible.
Correction: Once Harry falls from the first (top) window, down to the window below where his broom is located, the broom is indeed seen on that roof in the overhead shot looking down, albeit rather small.
Corrected entry: When the Durmstrang ship sinks into the water at the end, there is no disturbance in the water once it's below the surface. When it arrived there were plenty of waves and ripples, so it can't be an enchantment to prevent it disturbing the surface.
Correction: The submerged ship was moving at a much slower speed for their departure, and there would be less visible wake. When Durmstrang arrived, they were traveling at a fast pace to make a dramatic entrance. They could also have used magic to ripple the water for a more theatrical effect and to announce their arrival. When they depart, the mood is much more somber.
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, where the muggle caretaker is in his house before he is killed by Voldemort, he lights a fire and puts a pot of tea on to boil. In the next shot you can see that he still has the pot in his hand, even though he had already put it down.
Correction: Frank Bryce, the caretaker puts a silver water kettle on the fire in the close-up, and in the next wideshot walks away from the stove. In the next shot Frank is holding another dark round kettle with tea bags. After Frank is killed the silver water kettle is shown whistling on the stove.
Corrected entry: On the tombstone, you first see the name as Tom Riddle. Later when Harry is tied to it, it is Thomas Riddle.
Correction: On the tombstone there are three names: at the top is Thomas Riddle and the third name down is Tom Riddle.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Harry is talking to Sirius Black in the fire, he throws a Daily Prophet into the fire and it bounces back out again. There are only cinders and burning wood in the fire during that scene, but after Sirius has gone, the shot goes to the same newspaper that has just bounced out of the fire, which is now in the fireplace, happily burning.
Correction: When Sirius appears the crumpled Daily Prophet rests on the floor (of the actual fireplace), to the left of the base of the iron log grate (in which Sirius' face appears), during the rest of the scene. In the last shot, after the fire's embers cause the newspaper to catch fire, the newspaper is still at the base of the grate - note the grate's iron leg beside the paper as it burns.
Corrected entry: Moody says in class that it's hard to separate the people who were truly under the Imperius curse from the liars. But in the maze when Krum is under the curse his eyes are hazed over and he has no pupils. Wouldn't it be fairly easy to tell who's under the curse if their eyes were like that?
Correction: Their eyes are like that while under the spell, but the wizards could claim they had been under the spell at some point previously i.e. when committing crimes and it would be almost impossible to prove.
Correction: The four "captives" were put to sleep with a magic spell(s) that allows them to stay alive while underwater, so part of the power of the spell actually keeps them submerged. The binds around their ankles merely hold them in place and are for the task's rescue porposes. Even at the very end of the task, when Harry nears the surface with Ron and Gabrielle, he gives them a push to float up, before the Grindylow attack him.
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